Device for regulating rotary motion



(No Model.)

A. SYVERSEN.

DBVIGB POR'RBGULATING ROTARY MOTION. No. 250,404.- Pajented Dec. 6,1881.

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UNITED STATES ANDREASSYVERSEN, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

DEVICE FOR REGULATING ROTARY MOTION.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 250,404, dated December 6, 1881. Application tiled August 8, 1831. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ANDREAS SYVERsEN, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of Chicago, in the county of Cook, in the State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Devices for Regulating Rotary Motion, which are fully set forth in the following specification, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation of part of av stampingmachine provided with myimprovements. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical section of the same, the lower part being broken away. Fig. 3 is a detailed and enlarged section on the line :c m in Fig. 1, the point of View being on the right of the section plane. Fig. 4 is a detailed and enlarged section on the line y y in Fig. 2, the point of view being to the left of the section plane. Fig. 5 is a detailed and enlarged front elevation of the notched ring which forms part of the device for connecting and disconnecting the machinery with the driving-power, together with its support and with the disconnecting-latch interlocked. Fig. 6 is a detailed and enlarged section on the line c z in Fig. 5, the point of view being above the section plane.

The same letters denote the same parts in all the gures.

My invention relates to machinery operated by a revolving shaft which derives its motion from a wheel connected with the driving power; and it consists in the devices and combinations of devices for connecting and disconnectin g the shaft with the wheel and arresting the motion of the former, and for increasing and diminishing the sweep of the crank or analogous appliance operated by the shaft, which will be fully described hereinafter and definitely pointed out in the claims, the object being to accomplish these results by means more simple, convenient, and inexpensive, though not less efficacious, than those now in use.

In the drawings, A represents the crankwheel, with its crank-shaft A', which operates the die or other tool. This crank-wheel is rigidly set on a main shaft, C, which has a bearing in the supporting-frame D. The bandwheel E, connected with the driving-machinery, is also set on the shaft C, so as to turn freely on it. Between this wheel and the supporting -frame D the shaft has a surrounding g shell, C', keyed to it. A circular flange, C2, of this shell is in contact with the band wheel.

v On the face opposite to this flange the wheel has a socket or mortise, e. The shell C' affords an enlarged bearing for the clutch F, which is a collar of generally circular form surrounding the shell and pivotally aiixed to it by the two bolts c', which are both in the same diametric line. The clutch is so much larger than the shell as to be capableof a slight vibratory motion on it and about the bolts c'. Atthe ends of that diameter which is at right angles to the bolts c' and in the direction of that diameter the clutch has two enlargements, F' and F2. The enlargement F', by means of a bolt, f', passing through it from side to side and rigidly set in it, supports midway between its two sides a pin, F3, nearly parallel to the axis of the shaft C. This pin is equidistant from the axis with the mortise c of the band-wheel, and is of suitable dimensions to fit in it when the vibration ofthe clutch brings the enlargement F nearest to the wheel. The shell C' has also an enlargement, C3, corresponding to the enlargement F', and perforated, as is also the ange C2, to allow the pin Fs to pass through it into the mortise c. The enlargementCShas also a slot, c3, cut in it, through which the bolt f' moves back and forth when the clutch vibrates. The shell C' is obviously not an essential part of the device, since the collarF might have its bearing immediately on the shaft; but it is desirable to have a larger bearing-surface than a shaft of ordinary size would afford.

Between the clutch F and the crank-wheel, and so near to the former as to be in contact with it when that part of the clutch adjoining the enlargement F2 is farthest from the bandwheel, is a ring, G, nearly equal in diameter to the clutch F, and surrounding the shell C', but not in contact with it. On the face nearest the crank-wheel it has a ange, g, extendingtoward its center. This flange rests on a shoulder cut in the outer edge of the plate H, which plate is attached by any convenient means to the supporting-frame D, and is parallel with the ring. This plate is circular in its upper part, where it is opposite to the ring, which it somewhat exceeds in diameter. It has also a central circular aperture, through which the shaft passes. Below the ring it extends downward in the form of a narrow rect- IOO angle. Another annular plate, Hf, somewhat larger than the innermost circumference of the ange g and so small at to fit easily within the unflanged part of the ring, is screwed to the outer face of H, so as to form, with it, a circular groove, in. which the ring Grests by means of its flange, the breadth of the shoulder on H being sufcient to admit of the ring turning freely in the groove. The ring Gr is cut away in one part of its circumference, so as to form a notch, g', just large enough to receive a lug, f2, which projects from the opposite face of the enlargement F2 of the clutch F. This enlargement F2 is a solid plate or block, recessed on the face adjoining the flange G2 of the shell, which is also correspondingly recessed. A spring, J, set Vin these recesses, tends by its elasticity to push the enlargement against the ring G, and thus to force the lug fl into the notch g when the two are opposite each other. Obviously the other enlargement, F', will by the same motion be forced toward the bandwheel, so as to bring the pin F3 into the mortise @whenever the two are opposite each other.

A perpendicular rod, K, has an upward and downward playin two collars, h and h', which are set on the face of the rectangular part of the plate H below the ring. A stop or latch, K', on the upper end of this rod is adapted, like the lug f2, to fit into the notch g', and a coiled spring, K2, attached at one end to the rod and contined between the two collars, tends by its elasticity to hold the rod up, so that the latch K will engage in the notch g' whenever the ringis turned so as to bring the notched part of its circumference lowest. The lower end of the'rod K is connected, either directly or, as shown in the drawings, bymeans of a cord, wire, or the like, with a treadle, L, so that by the pressure ot' the operator-s foot the latch K can be drawn and kept out of the notch g. The outer and upper corner of the latch K', which is opposite to the direction in which the band-wheel turns, is cut o' in a curve, so as to engage with the lugf2 when it encounters it in the notch g and gradually lift it out, the spring K2 forcing the latch itself into the place thus vacated. A flange, 7c', projecting in front onthe other side ot' the latch serves as a stop to prevent the clutch, and consequently the shaft C, from turning any farther when the lug f2 has been forced out of the notch g. It also prevents the shaft from turning more than a single revolution at most in the opposite direction when disconnected from the driving-wheel, and thus obviates a class of accidents which are often quite inconvenient. The drawings are made on the supposition that the band-wheel will turn with its lower halt1 to the right; consequently the curved bevel of the latch K is on. its left side and the projecting flange 7c' on its right.

To set the shaft in motion, the ring Gr being first set with its notch g lowermost, the main shaftCisturned by the application of amonkeywrench, or otherwise, until the enlargement F2, carrying the lug f2, is opposite the notch g.

The latch K being drawn and held out ofthe notch by depressing the treadle, the spring J will force the lug f2 into the notch, and consequently the pin F3 into the mortise e, as soon as the revolution ofthe band-wheel brings the latter opposite the pin. The band-wheel and clutch being thus locked together, and the clutch being incapable of any rotary motion independently of the shaft (l, the latter will necessarily revolve and carry with it the crankwwheel. The band-wheel will thus continue to communicate its motion to the tool so long as the latch K is held down by depressing the treadle. To disconnect the shaft C from the band-wheel, and thus arrest the operation of the tool, the operator simply takes his foot from the treadle. 'lhe spring K2 immediately forces the latch K up against the ring G, andas soon as the ring (which necessarily revolves with the clutch with which it is interlocked) comes into that position where its notch (now engaged with thelugfz) is undermostthebevel on the left side of the latch will encounter the lug f2, lift. it out of the notch, and take its place there. The end of the clutch which carnries the lug f2 being thus forced back toward the band-wheel, the other end, which carries the pin F3, is necessarily drawn forward away from the band-wheel, so that the pin comes out of the mortise in the wheel, which now turns independently of the clutch and shaft, and thus communicates no motion to the latter. Any motion of the shaft resulting from acquired momentum is at the same time immediately arrested by the flange k', against which the enlargement F2 strikes.

I thus provide a simple, convenient, and immediately efficacious means of arresting the revolution of a shaft, and am thus enabled to dispense with the customary cumbersome and expensive apparatus of counter-shaft and pulleys, for which, moreover, it is sometimes dificult to nd room within reach of the operators stand.

By the use of my device the die or other tool can obviously be adj usted or changed without stopping the driving machinery.

In the crank-wheel A, I cutat one side ofthe center a circular depression, in which I set a secondary crank-wheel, A2, which carries at one side of its center the crank-shaft A. In the periphery of this secondary wheel I cut a number of radial and cylindrical sockets, a2. vI also drill a radial hole, a, through the large crank-wheclA, so as to register with the several sockets, a2, as the wheel A2 is made to turn withinA. Thisholeaiscylindricaland threadedfor the greater part of its length, but the part nearest the periphery of A is enlarged. A third radial hole, d, corresponding in cross-section to a, is drilled through that part of the supporting-frame in which the crank-wheel rests, so as to register with a at a certain point in the rotation of the wheel A.

It is obvious that by turning the wheel A2 within the wheel A the distance of the erank shaft from the common center of the wheel A IOO IOS

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and the shaft O may be varied, and the reciprocating stroke communicated by the crank proportionately lengthened or shortened.

The apertures d and a, being first made coiltinuous with each other by turning the wheel A into the proper position, the wheel A2 may then be turned within A until that socket a2 which corresponds to the desired position of the crank-shaft is broughtinto registry with l and ce. Ascrew-bolt, M, of a length somewhat greater than the combined depth of the socket a2 and the threaded part of a, is then let into the continuous socket formed by d, a, and a2, and screwed into the threaded part of a, the enlarged cross-section of d and the upper part of a aording room for the operation of a wrench. The crank-shaft will thus be securely locked in the desired position. Vhen itis desired to change this position for the purpose of lengthening or shortening the stroke, the bolt M is withdrawn, and, the wheel A remaining in the same position, thewheel A2 is turned until another socket a2 corresponding to the position in which it is desired to adjust the crank-shaft is brought into continuity with the apertures d and a. The bolt M is then screwed into place, as before, thus looking the crankshaft into its new position.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In combination with a rotary shaft, a driving-wheel loosely set thereon and mortised on its inner face, a notched ring sur` rounding the shaft and supported in a circular bearing independently of it, a collar pivotally affixed to the shaft by means of a bolt or bolts at right angles to its axis, and provided at one extremity of a diameter at right angles to the pivotal bolt with a projection facing the ring and arranged to engage with the notch thereof, and at the other extremity with a projection facing the driving-wheel and arranged to engage with the mortise therein, a latch supported below the center of the ring` and beveled on the Vside opposite to the direction in which the shaft revolves, and mechanism, controlled by the operator, for forcing the latch upward into the notch and for withdrawing it from contact with the ring, substantially as and for the purpose described.

2. The rotary shaft C, driving- Wheel E, loosely set thereon and provided with the mortise e, plate H, shaped as described, and attached to the supporting-frame opposite to the wheel E, ring G, surrounding the shaft, having a bearing in the circular periphery of the plate H and provided with the notch g, collar F, pivoted on the shaft between the wheel E and ring` G and provided with the projections F3 and f2, rod K on the plate H, latch K', provided with the projecting flange c, and mechanism, controlled by the operator, for moving the rod upward and downward, all in combination, substantially as and for the purposes described.

3. A rotary shaft, a driving-wheel loosely mounted thereon, a ring, G, surrounding the shaft, supported in a circular bearing independently ofit and provided with a notch, g', a clutch pivoted on the shaft between the ring and the driving-wheel, and provided with diametrically-opposite projections, arranged to engage with the ring and the driving-wheel respectively, a beveled latch, adapted to engage with the notch, and mechanism for foreing the latch automatically into the notch and withdrawing it at the will ofthe operator, all in combination, substantially as and for the purposes described. A

4. A rotary shaft, a driving-wheel turning independently ot' the shaft, the ring G, provided with the notch g and arranged about the shaft on an independent bearing, the beveled latch K', provided with the iiange 7c', mechanism for engaging and disengaging the latch with the notch, and a clutch pivoted on the shaft between the ring Gr and the drivingwl1cel,and provided with projections arranged to engage and disengage with the wheel and the ring simultaneously, all Vin combination, substantially as and for the purposes described.

5. The rotary shaft C, crank-wheel A, provided with the radial aperture a, secondary crank-wheel A2, provided with the radial sockets a2, and bolt M, all in combination,substantially as and for the purposes described.

ANDREAS SYVERSEN.

Witnesses:

JN0. C. MAcGnEeon, M. B. GAGE. 

